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Future Insults
(n.)
A person who invokes personal boundaries as excuses to avoid doing anything they’d rather not.
Her own well-being was non-negotiable, but when a friend declined her last-minute invitation, the boundroid needed a week to process the betrayal.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Boundary + droid, a combination used here to describe someone employs the therapeutic idea of personal boundaries to a robotic extreme. The boundroid takes society’s greater awareness of mental health and turns a field built to better understand people into a way to avoid them.
Future Words: A Non-Obvious Glossary of Terms That Don’t Exist (But Soon Will) collects all 100, each with its example sentence and coinage notes, from the bestselling authors of The Future Normal. Hardcover, October 20, 2026.